@rushstack/rush-sdk

@rushstack/rush-sdk

This is a companion package for the Rush tool. See the @microsoft/rush package for details.

⚠ THIS PACKAGE IS EXPERIMENTAL ⚠

The @rushstack/rush-sdk package acts as a lightweight proxy for accessing the APIs of the @microsoft/rush-lib engine. It is intended to support three different use cases:

1. Rush plugins should import from @rushstack/rush-sdk instead of @microsoft/rush-lib. This gives plugins full access to Rush APIs while avoiding a redundant installation of those packages. At runtime, the APIs will be bound to the correct rushVersion from rush.json, and guaranteed to be the same @microsoft/rush-lib module instance as the plugin host.

2. When authoring unit tests for a Rush plugin, developers should add @microsoft/rush-lib to their package.json devDependencies. In this context, @rushstack/rush-sdk will resolve to that instance for testing purposes.

3. For projects within a monorepo that use @rushstack/rush-sdk during their build process, child processes will inherit the installation of Rush that invoked them. This is communicated using the _RUSH_LIB_PATH environment variable.

4. For scripts and tools that are designed to be used in a Rush monorepo, in the future @rushstack/rush-sdk will automatically invoke install-run-rush.js and load the local installation. This ensures that tools load a compatible version of the Rush engine for the given branch. Once this is implemented, @rushstack/rush-sdk can replace @microsoft/rush-lib entirely as the official API interface, with the latter serving as the underlying implementation.

The @rushstack/rush-sdk API declarations are identical to the corresponding version of @microsoft/rush-lib.

Importing internal APIs

Backwards compatibility is only guaranteed for the APIs marked as @public in the official rush-lib.d.ts entry point. However, sometimes it is expedient for a script to import internal modules from @microsoft/rush-lib to access unofficial APIs. This practice faces a technical challenge that @microsoft/rush-lib is bundled using Webpack. The @rushstack/rush-sdk package provides stub files that import the corresponding internal module from the Webpack bundle, via the @rushstack/webpack-deep-imports-plugin mechanism.

WARNING: If the loaded rush-lib package has a different version from rush-sdk, there is no guarantee that the corresponding path will exist or have the same type signature. Access internal APIs at your own risk. If you find an internal API to be useful, we recommend that you create a GitHub issue proposing to make it public.

Example 1: Conventional import of a public API:

// THIS IS THE RECOMMENDED PRACTICE:
import { RushConfiguration } from '@rushstack/rush-sdk';
const config = RushConfiguration.loadFromDefaultLocation();
console.log(config.commonFolder);

Example 2: How to import an internal API:

// WARNING: INTERNAL APIS MAY CHANGE AT ANY TIME -- USE THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK:

// Important: Since we're calling an internal API, we need to use the unbundled .d.ts files
// instead of the normal .d.ts rollup, otherwise TypeScript will complain about a type mismatch.
import { RushConfiguration } from '@rushstack/rush-sdk/lib/index';
const config = RushConfiguration.loadFromDefaultLocation();
console.log(config.commonFolder);

// Load an internal module from the Webpack bundle using a path-based import of a stub file:
import { GitEmailPolicy } from '@rushstack/rush-sdk/lib/logic/policy/GitEmailPolicy';
console.log(GitEmailPolicy.getEmailExampleLines(config));

Debugging

Verbose logging can be enabled by setting environment variable RUSH_SDK_DEBUG=1.

Links

• CHANGELOG.md - Find out what's new in the latest version
• API Reference

Rush is part of the Rush Stack family of projects.